Ethics and Public Policy Center Fellow James C. Capretta has a must-read essay on "The Demographics of Social Security" which is sub-titled "Why Entitlement Reform Needs a Fertility Boost." The essential point is that America is not producing enough kids to produce enough workers to support the welfare state. In brief, there are too many retirees living off too few workers ("As fertility falls, [...]
Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren on the relationship between Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his large social conservative base: Now, Harper made a fairly explicit pact with all the millions of Canadian "social conservatives," including those in his own caucus. It was, "Support me, and I will give you nothing." This compared favourably with what the other parties were offering: more [...]
Add Kathy Ireland's name to the list of people who don't think Washington should fund abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood. National Review reports she said: "There are non-profits that I’m involved with, and we don’t get government funding ... We go out there, and if you really believe in this strongly enough to fight it for it, go get the funding." Beyond [...]
For the past few months we have been linking to Interim contributor Harley Price's series of essays on The Atheist Delusion. Last month, the final instalment was posted. A taste: Today, radical Islam has in common with [John] Lennon that it has likewise imagined a world without religion: specifically, without Christianity and Judaism. In their avidity to eradicate every vestige of Christian culture, from crucifixes [...]
For the first time, Gallup has a majority of respondents supporting same-sex "marriage". The question is pretty straightforward, so the results are not tied to a faulty or biased question. I think that this represents a legitimate tilt in American public opinion. Does that mean Washington or the states should jump on board to permit homosexual marriage? Absolutely not. First, morality is [...]
EFC Legal Counsel Faye Sonier gave an excellent, three-minute speech at the National March for Life in Ottawa last week. You can watch it here.
Last week 15,000 Canadians took part in the largest annual demonstration on Parliament Hill, marking Canada's Day of Infamy and demanding justice for the unborn. (On May 13, 1969 Canada effectively legalized abortion-on-demand.) LifeSiteNews reports on the National March for Life and the media coverage it received. For years the media largely ignored the march, but when 15,000 people show up on the step of Parliament, [...]
The National March for Life will be held in Ottawa tomorrow, May 12. There are also provincial marches for life across most of the country. If you cannot attend any of them, you can watch live online. And Ottawa mayor Jim Watson has proclaimed that May 12 be honored as ‘Respect for Life Day’ in the city. As Andrea Mrozek said, "I can’t [...]
In the May issue Interim columnist Rory Leishman writes about why Canada should hold a referendum on abortion funding. Leishman says: A referendum is a powerful tool for educating voters. If a referendum on abortion funding were to get underway in Canada, chances are that as more and more Canadians considered the issue, the proportion opposed to the current regime of full [...]
Campaign Life Coalition says that May 12, just ten days after the Canadian federal election, is the perfect time to take part in the National March for Life in Ottawa: The timing of the federal election, less than 2 weeks before our National March For Life in Ottawa could not be better. As a slew of new MPs are preparing for for work [...]
Belatedly The Interim wishes every mother a Happy Mother's Day, and echo the sentiment in this Frank Klees tweet: "Happy Mother's Day to all who have that awesome responsibility. You all deserve to be nominated for Sainthood." As we editorialized last year: The family is the school of love and it is taught only as it is given. The cultural problems arising [...]
Earlier today Oz Clark complained that Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak flip-flopped on HRCs and the Tory leader deserves to be criticized for doing so. But I want to add to Clark's comments on political parties broadening support. Clark observes that often politicians seek to broaden support by abandoning the positions that got them elected leader in the first place (this happens on both the Left [...]
I was disappointed but not surprised to see Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak backtrack on his leadership race campaign promise to scrap the Ontario Human Rights Commission. When Hudak ran for the PC leadership in 2009, he said he favoured using courts to prosecute cases where legal niceties such as presumption of innocence and evidence are taken into consideration and thus get rid of [...]
Harold Albrecht is the Conservative MP from Kitchener-Conestoga and is a principled pro-life, pro-family conservative. On Monday night as he and his wife Betty were preparing to go to the victory party -- he had just won a third term -- she suffered a spontaneous intracranial hemorrhagea. Betty died yesterday. She was 59. By all accounts Betty was a supportive wife in all of [...]
Steve Jalsevac of LifeSiteNews has a good commentary on the Canadian election in which he calls for more engagement with our elected officials. He says it is the responsibility of MPs to uphold what is right, not to slavishly follow the party leader. It is our responsibility to ensure MPs are educated about moral issues, especially in light of the failure of so-called religious leaders to [...]